History, Memory and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe [electronic resource] : Memory Games /
Mink, G.editor.
Neumayer, L.editor.
Fourteen specialists of Central and Eastern European politics explore memory policies and politics by examining how and why contested memories are constantly reactivated in the former Soviet bloc. The book explores how new social and political actors can challenge the traditional narratives about the past produced by state bodies.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; General Editor's Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Mobilizations around Memory: New Actors, New Issues; 1 Would-be Guardians of Memory: An Association of Camp Inmates of the 1992-95 Bosnian War under Ethnographic Scrutiny; 2 The Russian Orthodox Church and Reconciliation with the Soviet Past; 3 'You Still Live Far from the Motherland, but You Are Her Son, Her Daughter.' War Memory and Soviet Mental Space (1945-2011)
4 Pilgrimages to the Edge of the Fallen Empire - An Anthropological Study of Finnish and Hungarian Pilgrimages to Second World War Memorials in Post-Soviet Russia5 Memory at the Margins: The Shoah in Ukraine (1991-2011); Part II: Memory Policies and Historical Narratives: How Do States Deal with Memories of the Past?; 6 The Elites' Games in the Field of Memory: Insights from Lithuania; 7 The Chernobyl Nuclear Accident and Identity Strategies in Belarus; 8 Dealing with the Past in Central and Southern European Democracies: Comparing Spain and Poland
9 Institutions of National Memory in Post-Communist Europe: From Transitional Justice to Political Uses of Biographies (1989-2010)Part III: International Norms and 'Geopolitics of Memory'; 10 Memory Wars and Reconciliation in the Ukrainian-Polish Borderlands: Geopolitics of Memory from a Local Perspective; 11 Memory of the Soviet Union and European Norms on Diversity as Rival Frameworks for Ethnic Boundary Making: A Case Study in Latvia's Russian-speaking Schools; 12 Symbolic Policies versus European Reconciliation: The Hungarian 'Status Law'
13 The Rejection of International Criminal Law in West Germany after the Second World War14 History as a Tool for Foreign Policy in the Baltic States after Independence; Conclusion; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Fourteen specialists of Central and Eastern European politics explore memory policies and politics by examining how and why contested memories are constantly reactivated in the former Soviet bloc. The book explores how new social and political actors can challenge the traditional narratives about the past produced by state bodies.
Europe—Politics and government.
Russia—Politics and government.
World politics.
Terrorism.
Political violence.
Political sociology.
Political science.
European Politics.
Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.
Political History.
Terrorism and Political Violence.
Political Sociology.
Political Science.